News on Land

hrimp enclosures set up in Badarkhali area of Cox's Bazar district after felling thousands of trees that were planted in the coastal area to tackle natural disaster. Photo: Muhammad Ali Jinnat

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By: Rina Chandran

Date: 9 January 2017

Source: Reuters

A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life.

But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other families were evicted with a day's notice and relocated 20 km (12.4 miles) away, their homes demolished.

WOCAN in collaboration with RECOFTC- The Center for People and Forests has developed an infographic to highlight the discussions and recommendations of the Regional Dialogue on Women’s Inclusion in Landscape Management, held on 7-9 October 2014 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Source: Global Water Partnership

A new GWP perspectives paper outlines that the governance of land and water needs to be coordinated in order to feed the world’s growing population. The aim of the paper is to galvanise a discussion within the GWP network and the larger water, land, and development community.

Source: Global Water Partnership

Neil MacFarquhar’s recent piece in the New York Times describing how African farmers are being displaced by large-scale land investments raises some important issues.  As he points out, large-scale investment in land in developing countries has accelerated rapidly in recent …
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The Guardian Sustainable Business

The palm oil company at the centre of a bitter land rights struggle in Cameroon

Victoria Schneider in Cameroon

Monday 27 July 2015 08.45 EDT

Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them. Read the full article here: http://gu.com/p/4bx7m/sbl

Via Global Landscapes Forum

2015 Photo Competition

This competition is part of the Global Landscapes Forum that will be convened in Paris in December 2015, parallel to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21).